• Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Yup.

    What we are seeing now is a critical inflection point for liberals: do they do honest introspection and start to apply real criticism to the history of the US, or do they cover their ears and claim Trumpism is an aberration for which they have no reasonable explanation.

    To put it simply, liberals now have a choice between

    “Damn, this is really the outcome of the american political project, huh? How did we get here?”

    And

    “Trumpist fascism is un-American, and I am clueless as to how it took hold, but I am going to continue to vote blue no matter who!”

    If the amount of liberals on .world bizarrely harkening back to the “good old days” of the founders, Reagan, Obama, and even dubya is any indication, I suspect most of them have gone with the second option.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Liberals are just as much reactionaries as conservatives. They simply disagree on which status quo they’d like to return to and who is acceptable to exploit.